NOTE

As I continue to work on things away from this blog (which is a collection of Free-Time/Casual Online Writing, Remarks, And Notes By ME Whelan) and continue to figure out what goes and what stays of my existing online-writing, the de-emphasizing of one or another continues as well....

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Other Writing Post B

Note (03/01/16): As far as I know, this particular bunch of links have all been disabled (by me). At any
given time I have several blogs "in the works". I say "in the works"
because they're all either still in the "laying-a-foundation" stage, or
else their foundation is well established but my posting is not as
regular as one would expect in a blog. Basically, I see them as
"early-stage" blogs that I've set up with the idea of having them there
for if/when I decide and/or have the time and inspiration to post more
regularly. So aware that the blogs aren't "what blogs are supposed to
be", I occasionally take them all offline just because I'm uncomfortable
with the undeveloped state they're in. Then, however, I realize they
aren't completely undeveloped as pages - only as functioning blogs.
That's when I put them back online and figure anyone who runs into them
can either read (or not read) whatever is there. Not that I assume
anyone would even be interested in any of the blogs at this stage; but
for anyone who may be curious, I've posted links to them (even though
they are not listed in search engines and not fully functioning - by any
means - as of right now).

My challenge has always been
that I'm not among the people who write "just for an audience" or "just
for fun" (and who don't care at all about whether they can turn their
enjoyment-writing into profit. Neither, however, am I among the people
whose only real interest in posting any writing online is in making
money with it. At times I wrote for either and both of those reasons,
but I'm also someone who writes for reasons other than what it is I may
get out of writing. I don't mean to come across as arrogant, or as a
"writing snob", when I say this; but I often write with the hope that
some reader somewhere may at least get some positive little thing from
reading (and when I say "some positive little thing" I'm not referring
to a repeat of information that the reader could have gotten anywhere
else online or off). There's also yet another reason that I write (and I
won't go into here, but it's personal).

In any case, with all the
reasons and purposes I have for writing in whatever "what-I-feel-like"
writing time I have, it has become clear that all that writing needs a
place where posting it makes some sense. The blogs are, for now, that
kind of place. Over time one or another may become better developed, or
else maybe I'll consolidate some and get rid of others. For now they
serve my own purposes, whether or not I have one or another listed in
search engines. They don't look like a lot of blogs often look, and
they function the way a lot of blogs function. One day they may if I
feel as if they have enough substance to them that they're worth more
regular attention from me. For now, they're essentially a mostly
"maybe-one-day" kind of long-term thing that's convenient for me.Unfinished FeminismFocus: Ways in which feminism made little impact on womenas recently as the present time.

Focus:
No particular focus, to be honest. Originally, I had plans for this
one. For now, it's just kind of there. Maybe I'll do more with it at
some point. Well, actually, it's not so much that I have no focus for
"The Hat-Box Journal". It's just that I only do so much of the kind of
writing that fits that focus, which really is only about "just-writing".

Focus: Based on the idea that a whole lot of people over "a certain age" don't feel any older than they ever have, this site aimed at those people "over a certain age" incorporated (but is not limited to) that idea.

Focus: Inspired by the numbers of time I've read/heard people say how "nobody wants to read anything long", I thought I'd devote a whole blog to material that would be considered "too long to read" by many people in an Internet age.

Focus: Aimed at addressing the challenge of keeping going, and keeping life normal, when faced with being overwhelmed and/or exhausted either because of having a lot to do, having exhaustion because of unrelenting/severe and/or long-term stress, or having mild depression.

Focus: Still in need of resources in addition to those already posted, the
aim of this site is offer resources and reading for parents of premies;
while also offering some limited first-hand experience with having (and
caring for) a premature baby.

Focus: Still in its earliest stages, the aim of this site is (will be) to focus on some of the sometimes less obvious problems within the education system.My Daughter's EngagementFocus:
Inspired by my own daughter's engagement, the aim/plan for this site is
to expand to offer material for the mothers (or others) whose own
daughter's look forward to a wedding.

(Temporarily Offline)Focus: This pure-silliness blog is written from the standpoint of
one very busy troll doll. Besides populating the blog with pure
silliness, my other aim is to eventually incorporate some messages "from
the WishNik" (troll doll) aimed at children.

Focus: Inspired by hearing many people say that they didn't feel much like Christmas a few years ago, this site is aimed at trying to offer both some ideas about dealing with not feeling very "Christmas-y", but also some material aimed at generating (maybe, and hopefully) a little Christmas spirit.

Drunk Driving and SpeedingFocus: This site was never intended to become a fully functioning blog. It was created with the idea of its being "an abbreviated blog with a message". Basically, all it is is a couple of stories and some limited posts aimed at trying to make the loss caused by drunk driving and speeding feel more real to the reader. It is simply a case of "Here's me. Here's my personal experience. Here's the Internet. How can I not try to send this very important message that too few people ever seem to get."

The Lisa H. Warren BlogFocus: This blog was created as a "home-base" blog aimed at organizing my online writing that has been done under the pen name, "Lisa H. Warren".

Straight Talk Sort Of
Focus: The original aim of this as-yet-still-under-developed site was
to have a place online where I could get away from online writing
communities and just write about the issues as I see them. It will
probably be consolidated with another "straight-talk type of" blog at
some point. For now it is, as they say, what it is.

Everyday Gadgets and Other StuffFocus: Personal/informal reviews, comments and/or experiences related to a variety of products. (Temporarily offline "for renovations")An Online Writer's Junk DrawerFocus: Even with my personal aversion to the concept of offline "junk drawers", I realized that it might be kind of handy to have a "dumping ground" for some files I have and either don't know what to do with, or else material that really isn't fit for human consumption in its present state.

Just Getting Things Straight Focus: This
site, which remains yet to be adequately developed, is one I set up
with the idea of getting away from writing more "neutral" material and
instead finally writing about some of the more personal things/ideas in
life that I need to write - but that I haven't yet decided I really
wanted on the Internet.

What Are "Fourth Tier Writing Efforts"?

The blogs that I've placed under this category are those that focus
primarily on writing (particularly, online writing). Blogs are this
category are essentially a symptom of my never-ending wheel-spinning and
pondering about my own direction with regard to any efforts I put it on
online writing. Not that anyone will be holding his breath for this,
but one of these days I'll actually get all those files of
wheel-spinning and pondering onto one of my many writing-focused blogs.
In the meantime, this particular group of blogs exists for when/if I
need a place to post that wheel-spinning, pondering and/or the
occasional take on Internet writing.

In case you're curious
about the "tier thing"... Here are the "tiers" to which I've
assigned my different purposes/types of writing:

Tier 1: "Real" writing, which is writing I do either for someone else or as part of one of my own projects.

Tier 2:
Writing and set-up for my general (overall), online-writing, efforts
(which, at it turns out) has amounted to the online writing's
having taken on a life of its own.

Tier 3: Blogs
that focus on one subject/theme or another (or than my own online
writing). For now these are a low-end, long-term, type of thing for
me. As far as I'm concerned, all of the blogs I have today are on thin
ice with regard to remaining in existence (at least until they, or I, do
something that leads to a next step in what happens to them).

Tier 4: I
should have called "Tier 4", "For Tired" because whenever I don't feel
up to, or have the time for, writing something more substantial I most
often end up writing about writing. And, if I don't write about writing
I instead writing about thinking about writing (that type of aimless
thing). That happens partly because writing about writing is easy when
one is too tired to write much else, but it also happens because there
is a lot about writing online that I've always found "energy-draining"
anyway. As a result, sometimes there's a chicken-egg kind of thing when
it comes to whether I get tired of writing first or whether the whole
online-writing environment is just kind of wearing on a person.

Tier 5:
This is the writing I do on sites like writing sites - other people's
sites. Tier 5 shouldn't be under-estimated because I've built a little
income stream from Tier 5. Still (and in another chicken/egg type
scenario), I've always altered my writing to try to make it fit well
enough on some writing sites, but that, in itself, can contribute to not
feeling particularly energized when it comes to that kind of writing.Tier 6:
Tier 6 writing needs to be removed from one of the many back-burners
on which any one or another of those projects just sits. Tier 6 writing
needs to become, say, Tier 2 (maybe even Tier 1) writing in the very
near future (and I mean VERY near), but until now those projects (and
there are several) have all been at the Tier 6 level.

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"Writing isn't always about just getting the words down, or out, or even read. It is about pulling from the universe just the right number and combination of words and allowing them to join hands to come to life."

Note I

As I continue to reorganize, trim down, consolidate, further develop, and/or otherwise work on any number of my own blogs/sites, there may be the occasional "No Page Exists" message on this blog. That's temporary and not something I can avoid at this stage in my reorganizing "project".

I've got my Google+ profile settings so that all but this blog and a couple of other things are hidden from the public. Because of that, but because I don't particularly want to keep some of my writing a big secret, I'm including a few links that will get anyone who may be at all interested to a page that is far less of an apparent dead end than my Google profile is right at this time. Here's one link:

In order to keep this "explanatory note" relatively brief, I'll write a post (February 21, 2016) to further make it clear what I'm doing with this blog. My plan is to revise and/or delete this note in the very near future, when it no longer seems necessary to include it (or parts of it).

Because I've transitioned from having once used a pen-name to (in more recent times) using my real name, I'm also including a link to my "pen-name blog".

"The Writing-Reorganizing Project Continues" is the title of the February 21, 2016 post, to which I referred above.

Note II

What's On This Blog

This blog, as its title suggests, is a collection of online writing and random notes/thoughts of its author. Since material posted on or before February 21, 2016 has been imported from a number of my other sites/blogs there's a little bit of clean-up that still needs to be done on those posts, particularly with regard to some formatting issues. I'll be working on improving the presentation of the older posts. There won't (or at least shouldn't) be any issues with material posted on or after the date mentioned here.

Note III

The following is a transfer from another one of my blogs/sites. It appears more attractively presented elsewhere, but I've chosen not to link to that because a) I don't want this blog to be a "dreaded" "doorway page", and b) I'm trying to "bury" (without completely deleting, at least for now) some of the sites where posts already appear. It know there are easier, more automated, ways to transfer material, but with a large variety and number of different types of material to be transferred, I've found that in some instances "more automated" means "further, even if relatively minor, complicating things". In other words, I have a real online mess on my hands. I don't want more of the same, which, for my purposes/aims, often means limiting the "automating".

For now, I'll mark transfer posts as such. (Oh, and way at the bottom of the blog there's a link to the latest incarnation of an old blog. The link is there for my own convenience as I work on things here Links on this sidebar are old stuff. I'll do something with links to new stuff some other time.)

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OTHER WRITING

"Other Writing" is a post title (and label) I've used on two posts ("Other Writing A" and "Other Writing B") with links to a big mix of (what else) other writing I have that falls under the category of "free time" or "casual" online. There's also a third post related to other writing, and that describes what much of that "other writing" is and why I included the other-writing-related posts, all of which are dated February 24, 2016.

(In a nutshell, I want those links available on here but don't want to highlight them.)

ABOUT 'WORDCRAFTER"

If you've arrived here via my HubPages "WordCrafter09" profile or from any of my pen-name pages here's a link to a blog that I set up as I was making the transition from a long-time, well established, pen-name to using my own name. Until very recently I've linked from my "WordCrafter09" profile to the blog, but since I've made substantial progress with the transition I decided to de-emphasize that blog (while still making a link to it available - at least for awhile longer).

It's not so much "blog" as it is part dumping ground and part explanation. In any case, here's the link (for now, anyway...):